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Turkey’s Role in MENA Region; Interview with Firoozeh Kashani

By vomena on July 27th, 2011

This week on Voices of The Middle East and North Africa we will be looking at Turkey’s expanding role in the Middle East and North Africa. We will be speaking with Dr. Karem Oktem, a research fellow at the European Studies Center of Saint Anthony’s College about Turkey’s foreign policy in the Middle East and North Africa. Later on in the program, VOMENA producer Shuka Kalantari will speak with Iranian-American author, Firoozeh Kashani of Penn State University about her debut novel ‘Martyrdom Street.’

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Turkey’s Role in the MENA region; Discussion of Firoozeh Kahani’s “Martydrom Street”

By vomena on July 5th, 2011

This week on Voices of the Middle East and North Africa, we take an in-depth look at Turkey’s expanding role in the Middle East and North Africa. We will be speaking with Dr. Karem Oktem; a research fellow at the European Studies Center of Saint Anthony’s College; about Turkey’s assertive foreign policy in the Middle East and North Africa. Later on in the program VOMENA producer Shuka Kalantari will speak with Iranian American author Firoozeh Kashani of Penn State University about her debut novel “Martydom Street.”

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Iranian activist Reza Shahabi in Evin Prison; Iranian band ‘Abjeez’

By vomena on December 16th, 2010

This week on the occasion of International Human Rights Day, we speak to the wife of jailed labor union activist Reza Shahabi who began a dry hunger strike on December 4th in Evin Prison in Tehran. We also talk to the director of the international campaign for human rights in Iran about the plight of jailed Iranian labor unionists. Also, Shuka Kalantari speaks with Sweden-based Iranian musicians Melody and Safoura Safavi of the band Abjeez.

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This Week: Political Prisoners in Iran; Tribute to Palestinian Poet

By vomena on September 1st, 2010

This week on Voices of the Middle East & North Africa, we have Iranian woman activist Sussan Tahmasebi and Reporters Without Borders’ Reza Moeini about the current plight of political prisoners in Iran.

Later in the program, we’ll pay tribute to legendary Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish, who passed away a year ago on August 9th 2008.

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The changing role of Turkey; A film about women in Iran

By vomena on August 1st, 2010

Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010

Women Without Men
Women With Men

Two different perspectives about the changing role in Turkey vise a vie the U.S. and Israel. In light of the recent attack on the Free Gaza flotilla, and the killing of nine Turkish activists by Israel commandos. Later in the program we’ll speak with award-winning Iranian-American visual artist Shirin Neshat about her first full-length motion picture titled, “Women Without Men.”

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This Week: Women’s Struggles in Iran

By vomena on February 7th, 2010

This week on Voices of the Middle East and North Africa, we bring you an interview with Haideh Moghissi from York University in Canada, about women’s struggle for equality in Iran. Later in the program we have a conversation with Rachel Leah Jones, directory of the documentary film, Ashkenaz, about the history of Ashkenazi Jews in Israel.

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This Week on VOMENA: LGTB in Lebanon & Climate Change in N. Africa

By vomena on December 11th, 2009

This week on Voices of the Middle East and North we go to Copenhagen to speak with experts about the impact of global warming in North Africa and what . We also speak with the general coordinator of a LGTB movement in Lebanon about the book, Bareed Mista3jil: True Stories, a collection of 41 stories from “lesbians, bisexuals, queer and questioning women, and trans-gender persons from all over Lebanon.”

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